Shanghai Community International School Pudong Lower School Campus Celebrates EARTH WEEK! Teaching Green The mission: To create a week of activities, learning, projects and fun geared around Earth Day in order to educate through sharing and spreading the importance of saving our planet.
Monday, April 19th Representatives from the local non-profit organization Greennovate, www.greennovate.net, provided an all school presentation encompassing: 1. An environmental quiz game to get the students warmed up. 2. The story of Easter Island (a great metaphor and reminder of what happens when our environment footprint gets too large). 3. Our Environmental footprint and how to personally reduce it. 4. An activity to have each student make a personal commitment to save the Earth. 5. Short videos inspiring action, including this superb video: www.global-mindshift.org/memes/wombat After their visit to our school, a proposal was written and submitted to our Parent organization P.A.F.A., to sponsor Greennovate’s upcoming Earth Day celebrations. It was approved, and our Earth Day sponsorship was the only one provided by a Shanghai International School! Tuesday, April 20th Our personal Shanghai Community International School Earth Hour! All electricity turned off for a full hour. 1st grade students had this to share about the importance of saving electricity:
“I think it is important to turn off lights because you are saving the Earth.” – Lily
“It is important to turn off the lights to save electricity.” - Alexandre Wednesday, April 21st A visit by the award-winning author Trevor Lai! One of his books, Ralphy to the Rescue, is about saving the planet. www.ralphy.ca Thursday, April 22nd All school rally from 1:15-2:45 · Teachers staged a reader’s theatre production of The Lorax by Dr. Seuss · Mandarin students did a skit in Mandarin titled, “Don’t Leave Rubbish.” · 5th grade students hosted a fashion show using recycled materials · Poster, poem and essay contest winners about ways to help the planet Earth presented their creations · Music teacher lead all of us in a recycling song
Friday, April 23rd Free dress day (no uniform) for those who purchased a 20 rmb sticker to help Save the Rainforest www.rainforest-alliance.org. Additionally, each grade level was encouraged to do a project connected to Earth Day. These are some examples of projects which were easily integrated into our curriculum: 1. Pre-Kindergarten students learned about endangered species and made posters about several of these species. 2. Kindergarten students received a sticker every time they drank from their own water bottle instead of using a plastic cup for water. They graphed and calculated saving 109 plastic cups in one week by creating this incentive! 3. 1st Graders began a campaign to raise funds to help save the rainforest. 4. 2nd Graders began a campaign to raise funds to help the Panda, a native endangered species of our host country. 5. 3rd graders made solar ovens from recycled pizza boxes and cooked hot dogs and s’mores on Earth Day! 6. 4th graders utilized recycled materials in integrating their castle building project connected to History. 7. Technology students created videos answering the question, “What can you do at home and/or school to help the Planet Earth?” These videos were shown throughout the week on our lobby monitor.
Pudong Lower School Campus
Celebrates EARTH WEEK!
Teaching Green
The mission: To create a week of activities, learning, projects and fun geared around Earth Day in order to educate through sharing and spreading the importance of saving our planet.
Monday, April 19th
Representatives from the local non-profit organization Greennovate, www.greennovate.net, provided an all school presentation encompassing:
1. An environmental quiz game to get the students warmed up.
2. The story of Easter Island (a great metaphor and reminder of what happens when our environment footprint gets too large).
3. Our Environmental footprint and how to personally reduce it.
4. An activity to have each student make a personal commitment to save the Earth.
5. Short videos inspiring action, including this superb video:
www.global-mindshift.org/memes/wombat
After their visit to our school, a proposal was written and submitted to our Parent organization P.A.F.A., to sponsor Greennovate’s upcoming Earth Day celebrations. It was approved, and our Earth Day sponsorship was the only one provided by a Shanghai International School!
Tuesday, April 20th
Our personal Shanghai Community International School Earth Hour! All electricity turned off for a full hour. 1st grade students had this to share about the importance of saving electricity:
“I think it is important to turn off lights because you are saving the Earth.” – Lily
“It is important to turn off the lights to save electricity.” - Alexandre
Wednesday, April 21st
A visit by the award-winning author Trevor Lai! One of his books, Ralphy to the Rescue, is about saving the planet. www.ralphy.ca
Thursday, April 22nd
All school rally from 1:15-2:45
· Teachers staged a reader’s theatre production of The Lorax by Dr. Seuss
· Mandarin students did a skit in Mandarin titled, “Don’t Leave Rubbish.”
· 5th grade students hosted a fashion show using recycled materials
· Poster, poem and essay contest winners about ways to help the planet Earth presented their creations
· Music teacher lead all of us in a recycling song
Friday, April 23rd
Free dress day (no uniform) for those who purchased a 20 rmb sticker to help Save the Rainforest www.rainforest-alliance.org.
Additionally, each grade level was encouraged to do a project connected to Earth Day. These are some examples of projects which were easily integrated into our curriculum:
1. Pre-Kindergarten students learned about endangered species and made posters about several of these species.
2. Kindergarten students received a sticker every time they drank from their own water bottle instead of using a plastic cup for water. They graphed and calculated saving 109 plastic cups in one week by creating this incentive!
3. 1st Graders began a campaign to raise funds to help save the rainforest.
4. 2nd Graders began a campaign to raise funds to help the Panda, a native endangered species of our host country.
5. 3rd graders made solar ovens from recycled pizza boxes and cooked hot dogs and s’mores on Earth Day!
6. 4th graders utilized recycled materials in integrating their castle building project connected to History.
7. Technology students created videos answering the question, “What can you do at home and/or school to help the Planet Earth?” These videos were shown throughout the week on our lobby monitor.